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Trujillo’s Cult of Gratitude
A wall in a poor Dominican neighborhood bears the slogan: Trujillo nos da todo a cambio de nada (Trujillo gives us everything in exchange for nothing). This propagandistic phrase exemplifies the personality cult engineered by the dictator Rafael Trujillo (r. 1930–61), who demanded public displays of loyalty even from the most marginalized citizens.
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